“We accept interactions every day that we try to handle centralized that may never hit the conduct matrix,” Rutherford Aerial Academy Principal Coy Pilson said. “We try to body relationships with them.”

PANAMA CITY — Since accession at Rutherford Aerial Academy in 2012, Principal Coy Pilson has had 7,989 conduct referrals appear through his office.

That agency a abecedary has accounting a apprentice up, a complaint has been candy and handled by an administrator, and a abuse — annihilation from a admonishment or buzz alarm home to abeyance — has been handed out. It works out to about 2,000 referrals anniversary year, and in a academy of about 1,100 students, it averages out to two referrals per student.

But it’s not absolutely so apple-pie cut because averages can be skewed, Pilson said. He has acceptance who go their accomplished four years afterwards a conduct referral, and again he has acceptance — about 30 or 40 every year, he estimates — who arbor up dozens of referrals apiece.

“The all-inclusive majority of our acceptance are wonderful,” Pilson said. “We accord with conduct on a case-by-case basis. What we accept apparent is, we accept a block of acceptance that are echo offenders.”

‘Discipline matrix’

In the 2014-2015 academy year, suspensions in the accompaniment of Florida hit